Quotes About Expectations

I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.

When we in our sector talk of the adoption of Indian consumers to new products and innovative ways of doing banking, they always exceed our expectations.

One thing that annoys me in football is when people get carried away by results after four or five weeks of a new season.

Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.

When people want to lose weight, they get to a point where they are desperate and looking for the new thing that is going to work miracles. But at the end of the day, there is no such thing.

People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

If you are dating someone in New York City, and they invite you over to watch a movie, they don't really want to watch a movie.

When you stay with Barcelona and are only 15 or 16, the people show you a lot of time, and you are in the newspaper every day. This sometimes is good, but sometimes this is bad.

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.

If I have my best year yet in 2018 but we're 8-8, I didn't go to the next level. That's the reality of it.

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

I'd like to meet a nice girl and leave all those 'hottest bachelor' lists behind.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

People always put me completely out of the game, and that's even nicer because nobody expects you to do a good job and then you do a better job than everybody thinks and it's nicer.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

A lot of people say I'm a lot nicer as a person than they thought I was, but I don't know what that means.

I'm a much nicer guy than people think I'm going to be.

The nicest thing that my friends who've known me for 15 or 20 years say to me is, 'Man, it's crazy that you're the same guy.' It's like, 'Which guy did you expect me to be?'